Truly Agreed, 2015

217.550. 1. The department shall establish and operate
at its correctional centers a vocational enterprise program which
includes industries, services, vocational training, and agribusiness
operations. The director shall have general supervision over
planning, establishment and management of all vocational enterprise
operations provided by and within the department and shall decide
at which correctional center each vocational enterprise shall
be located, taking into consideration the offender custody levels,
the number of offenders in each correctional center so the best
service or distribution of labor may be secured, location and
convenience of the correctional centers in relation to the other
correctional centers to be supplied or served and the machinery
presently contained in each correctional center. 2.
No service shall be established or renewed without prior approval
by the advisory board of vocational enterprises program established
by section 217.555 [and the joint committee on corrections
established by sections 21.440 to 21.465]. [Both]
The board [and the committee] shall make a finding
that the establishment of the service shall be beneficial to
those offenders involved and shall not adversely affect any statewide
economic group or industry. 3.
The annual report of Missouri vocational enterprises submitted
to the director shall include: (1)
A list of the correctional industries, services, vocational training
programs, and agribusinesses in operation; (2)
A list of correctional industries, services, vocational training
programs, and agribusinesses started, terminated, moved, expanded,
or reduced during the period; (3)
The average number of offenders employed in each correctional
industry, service, vocational training program, or agribusiness
operation; (4) The volume of
sales of articles, services, and materials manufactured, grown,
processed or provided; (5)
An operating statement showing the profit or loss of each industry,
service, vocational training program, and agribusiness operation; (6)
The amount of sales to state agencies or institutions, to political
subdivisions of the state, or any other entity with which the
vocational enterprise program does business, and the amount of
open market sales, if any; and (7)
Such other information concerning the correctional industries,
services, vocational training programs, and agribusiness operations
as requested by the director.